Market-goers share TAFE success stories, fear consequences of funding cuts
6 March 2018
Section: News
Terrific stories about how TAFE can change people’s lives were revealed by locals at the Riverside Markets in Kempsey on Saturday, Federation TAFE Organiser Adam Curlis said.
Guns don’t belong in schools
6 March 2018
Section: News
Gun violence in schools was raised at the Australian Education Union’s annual federal conference, held recently in Melbourne.
TAFE failed by smart move
2 March 2018
Section: News
The NSW Government’s vocational education policy, Smart and Skilled, continues to fail our communities, TAFE students, teachers and support staff.
The Tide is Turning
2 March 2018
Section: Columns
This year is the 10th anniversary of the introduction of the National Assessment Program — Literacy and Numeracy, known simply as NAPLAN. And it’s time to be frank.
History Lesson: Teaching in the early days
2 March 2018
Section: News
The earliest teachers in what is now the state of NSW were Aboriginal men and
women. They taught life skills and tribal awareness via ceremony, dance, lore, oral
storytelling and art.
Letters
2 March 2018
Section: Member’s Voice
Letters include: Spoiled by choice, Question of quality and Workers strike out .
Funding cut set to bite
2 March 2018
Section: News
This was to be the year of a significant school funding uplift, intended to bring hundreds of NSW public schools closer to the minimum Schooling Resource Standard (SRS).
Shoring up support for our Beginning Teachers
2 March 2018
Section: News
With the start of the new school year, Federation has received a number of inquiries about the use of beginning teacher support funds in schools.
Policy core threat to public schools
2 March 2018
Section: News
In the lead up to the March 2019 NSW election, Federation will continue to expose the Department’s Local Schools, Local Decisions policy as the single greatest threat to teacher permanency and high-quality, high-equity public schooling for all students.
Project Officers
2 March 2018
Section: News
Federation’s mantra that recruitment of members is everybody’s responsibility falls a little more heavily on the shoulders of the union’s Project Officers. Federation has been growing strongly over the past few years, reaching 60,000 members in 2017.
Policy gap widening
2 March 2018
Section: News
This year is the 10th since millions of Australians mourned, wept, celebrated and embraced loved ones on the day then-prime minister Kevin Rudd delivered the National Apology to the First Peoples and to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children forcibly removed from their family and community.
Tree Levy grants schools green space
2 March 2018
Section: News
The Tree Levy is an annual grants scheme funded by Federation that aims to offset the environmental impact of the union’s activities via a notional levy on the paper used by the union.
Expressions of Interest open for semester 2 Project Officers
2 March 2018
Section: Administration
As part of the continuing implementation of the Annual Conference Decision 2004 Recruitment and Activism and the Future of the Union, the General Secretary is seeking Expressions of Interest from school teachers in their first few years of teaching, who believe they can make a significant contribution to the role of Project Officer.
Retired Teachers Association news
1 March 2018
Section: Member’s Voice
This year marks the 100th birthday of Federation and will be an important time for everyone who supports public education and trade unionism.
Your workplace contacts
1 March 2018
Section: Member’s Voice
Teaching in a small country community comes with its challenges but mainly rewards for Donna McLaughlan, Fed Rep at Canowindra Public School.
There’s nothing casual about teaching
1 March 2018
Section: News
Standards-based remuneration and pre-2004 teachers; Temporary engagement notices; Accreditation and maintenance
Expert to present NAPLAN report at public lecture
1 March 2018
Section: News
A world leader in assessment theory and practice, Dr Les Perelman, will outline his findings on NAPLAN at a public lecture on Friday, 4 May at 6pm.
Turnbull Government’s political ads rip $10m out of school funding
1 March 2018
Section: News
The Federal Education Department has been caught misleading Australian parents over funding of almost $10 million for an advertising campaign with money that should have gone to schools.
Association Spotlight: Canterbury Bankstown
1 March 2018
Section: Member’s Voice
We’re a very supportive and welcoming Association. We have a good cross section of representation from primary, secondary, IEC and SSP settings and members have said they consider our meetings productive, efficient and interesting.
Vale Colleen Hood
1 March 2018
Section: News
At Federation’s February Council meeting, General Secretary John Dixon remembered Colleen Hood as a tireless and courageous advocate in the struggle for justice and fairness. A long-time teacher, Federation Life Member and labour movement activist, she died after a short illness on 8 January, aged 75.